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Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) must contend with the dual challenge of learning new classes from scarce samples while preserving old class knowledge. Existing methods use the frozen feature extractor and class-averaged…

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Learning robust representations for physiological time-series signals continues to pose a substantial challenge in developing efficient few-shot learning applications. This difficulty is largely due to the complex pathological variations in…

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Sparse reward environments pose significant challenges in reinforcement learning, especially within multi-agent systems (MAS) where feedback is delayed and shared across agents, leading to suboptimal learning. We propose Collaborative…

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Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

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In this paper, we propose to tackle Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) from a new perspective, i.e., relation disentanglement, which means enhancing FSCIL via disentangling spurious relation between categories. The challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuan Zhou , Richang Hong , Yanrong Guo , Lin Liu , Shijie Hao , Hanwang Zhang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally fine-tune a model (trained on base classes) for a novel set of classes using a few examples without forgetting the previous training. Recent efforts address this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Townim Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Sameera Ramasinghe , Sahar Ahmadi , Morteza Saberi , Shafin Rahman

Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vineet Jain , Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a critical yet largely underexplored issue that deals with the dynamic incorporation of new classes within federated learning (FL). Existing methods often employ generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naibo Wang , Yuchen Deng , Wenjie Feng , Jianwei Yin , See-Kiong Ng

Graph-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

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Image-text matching remains a challenging task due to heterogeneous semantic diversity across modalities and insufficient distance separability within triplets. Different from previous approaches focusing on enhancing multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Haiwen Diao , Ying Zhang , Shang Gao , Xiang Ruan , Huchuan Lu

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is a challenging continual learning task, where limited training examples are available during several learning sessions. To succeed in this task, it is necessary to avoid over-fitting new classes…

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Diffusion models has emerged as a powerful framework for tasks like image controllable generation and dense prediction. However, existing models often struggle to capture underlying semantics (e.g., edges, textures, shapes) and effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhong Ji , Weilong Cao , Yan Zhang , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han , Xuelong Li

Given a model well-trained with a large-scale base dataset, Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims at incrementally learning novel classes from a few labeled samples by avoiding overfitting, without catastrophically forgetting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yawen Cui , Wanxia Deng , Haoyu Chen , Li Liu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) struggles to incrementally recognize novel classes from few examples without catastrophic forgetting of old classes or overfitting to new classes. We propose TLCE, which ensembles multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shuangmei Wang , Yang Cao , Tieru Wu

Non-exemplar class-incremental learning (NECIL) is to resist catastrophic forgetting without saving old class samples. Prior methodologies generally employ simple rules to generate features for replaying, suffering from large distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jichuan Zhang , Yali Li , Xin Liu , Shengjin Wang

We introduce DiffAug, a simple and efficient diffusion-based augmentation technique to train image classifiers for the crucial yet challenging goal of improved classifier robustness. Applying DiffAug to a given example consists of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Chandramouli Sastry , Sri Harsha Dumpala , Sageev Oore

The ability to incrementally learn new classes from limited samples is crucial to the development of artificial intelligence systems for real clinical application. Although existing incremental learning techniques have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Hao Yang , Weijian Huang , Jiarun Liu , Cheng Li , Shanshan Wang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to build machine learning model that can continually learn new concepts from a few data samples, without forgetting knowledge of old classes. The challenges of FSCIL lies in the limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Fuyuan Hu , Jian Zhang , Fan Lyu , Linyan Li , Fenglei Xu

Decision-focused learning (DFL) integrates predictive modeling and optimization by training predictors to optimize the downstream decision target rather than merely minimizing prediction error. To date, existing DFL methods typically rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zihao Zhao , Christopher Yeh , Lingkai Kong , Kai Wang

Diffusion models have shown promising generative capabilities across diverse domains, yet aligning their outputs with desired reward functions remains a challenge, particularly in cases where reward functions are non-differentiable. Some…

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